Harry Jerome Award / en Jodie Glean-Mitchell, champion of anti-racism education, receives Harry Jerome Award /celebrates/jodie-glean-mitchell-champion-anti-racism-education-receives-harry-jerome-award <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Jodie Glean-Mitchell, champion of anti-racism education, receives Harry Jerome Award</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/community" hreflang="en">Community</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2020-06-19T10:33:46-04:00" title="Friday, June 19, 2020 - 10:33" class="datetime">Fri, 06/19/2020 - 10:33</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/staff" hreflang="en">Staff</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/harry-jerome-award" hreflang="en">Harry Jerome Award</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/human-resources-equity" hreflang="en">Human Resources &amp; Equity</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/UofT17474_0313_JodieGlean001.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="Jodie Glean-Mitchell"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item">(photo by Lisa Lightbourn)</div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>Jodie Glean-Mitchell</strong>, the director of <a href="https://antiracism.utoronto.ca/">老司机直播鈥檚 Anti-Racism and Cultural Diversity Office</a> (ARCDO), has received <a href="https://myemail.constantcontact.com/BBPA-2020-Harry-Jerome-Awards-Winners-Announced.html?soid=1133210976962&amp;aid=jI8XpN43iDY">the 2020 Black Business Professional Association (BBPA) Harry Jerome Diversity Award</a> for her outstanding and inspirational work in promoting equity, diversity and inclusion in education.</p> <p>Among her many accomplishments, last year Glean-Mitchell and her team launched the inaugural <a href="https://antiracism.utoronto.ca/education-events/race-equity-action-series/">Race, Equity &amp; Action Speaker Series</a>, which hosts local and international experts, academics and advocates to advance conversations and understandings of racial equity, diversity and inclusion in postsecondary environments. During the 2019-20 academic year, ARCDO hosted 40 education sessions reaching more than 1,400 participants, including 老司机直播 staff, students, faculty, librarians and external community members.</p> <p>鈥淕lean-Mitchell鈥檚 experience and knowledge of the complexities of anti-racism and cultural diversity have allowed her to create meaningful and responsive initiatives,鈥 said Professor&nbsp;<strong>Kelly Hannah-Moffat</strong>, 老司机直播鈥檚 vice-president, human resources and equity. 鈥淗er efforts and commitment will continue to play an important role in fostering inclusiveness at the university and in helping us learn how to act on our commitment to anti-racism.鈥</p> <p>Established in 1983, the annual BBPA Harry Jerome Awards celebrate outstanding and inspirational individuals in the Black community, including businesspeople, professionals, athletes, academics, artists and community leaders. Award recipients are selected from among nominees across Canada.</p> <h3><a href="http://www.hrandequity.utoronto.ca/news/jodie-glean-mitchell-wins-2020-bbpa-award/">Read more about Jodie Glean-Mitchell</a></h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Fri, 19 Jun 2020 14:33:46 +0000 lanthierj 165043 at